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ataractic

British  
/ ˌætəˈræksɪk, ˌætəˈræktɪk /

adjective

  1. able to calm or tranquillize

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. obsolete an ataractic drug

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Trade-named Librium by New Jersey's Roche Laboratories, it is technically methamino-diazepoxide, a synthetic chemical unrelated to previous ataractic drugs.

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Others cannot tolerate it if they have taken antihistamine or ataractic drugs.

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While the open door is no cure-all," says Dr. Hunt, "it is the most important thing that has happened in treatment of the mentally ill in our lifetimes�not even excepting the ataractic drugs.

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